Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11301145/Tony-Booth-Will-Ed-Miliband-win-the-election-In-your-f-dreams.html

Tony Booth: Will Ed Miliband win the election? ‘In your f****** dreams

Cherie Blair’s father says suggestion Labour Leader could become Prime Minister is ‘play school

Tony Booth, the veteran actor and father of Cherie Blair, has bluntly dismissed the idea that Ed Miliband could become prime minister.

In an interview with Newsweek, Tony Blair’s father-in-law laughed off the suggestion that Labour could win the General Election under their current leader, saying “'In your f****** dreams. This is not play school.'”

The 83-year-old said that Labour would have more chance at on polling day in May if Mr Blair made a surprise return to power.

He said: “Funnily enough, I think he might have an outside chance. “Because people would say: ‘Well, at least he is the devil we know.’

“And with Miliband, you find yourself thinking, ‘This is a good kid, but when is he going to get into long pants? Are we just putting him up as a dummy until we find the right person?’”

Mr Booth also said that it was time for Labour to choose a woman for a leader, and named Barbara Castle, who was employment secretary under Harold Wilson, as a role model.

“I hope that, lurking somewhere in the Labour ranks, is a female politician who will emerge and speak the truth," he said.

“The one thing the Tories really don't like is a nanny. Nannies frighten them. We need somebody in the mould of Barbara Castle.”

The 83-year-old, best known for his role in the 1960s comedy Till Death Do Us Part, is said to be suffering from dementia, but was described by his interviewer, Robert Chalmers, as “more coherent than most serving MPs I have met.”

goldfinger , making a mountain out of a mole hill again

Goldfinger says he has 900 followers on Twitter and it turns out that he has 3. You could say he is prone to fantasy.

Why is that a surprise?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2878106/ALEX-BRUMMER-Farewell-zero-society-Ed-Miliband-s-judgements-appear-running-steam.html

Farewell to the zero society as Ed Miliband's job claims debunked

The underlying numbers, however, are greatly encouraging. The number of people in work in the last year has increased by 588,000 and 95 per cent of the jobs are full-time.

So this is not the zero economy of Miliband’s fevered imagination. It is also worth noting that the claimant count, the best forward indicator of the jobs market, fell by another 26,900 in November – a helpful precursor of the future.

What also is significant is the trend in real wages. It may be a long time before the £1,600 fall in living standards during the recession years, part of Labour’s standard rhetoric, is eliminated.

No one should lose sight of the fact that in Britain the jobless rate is half that of our eurozone partners. That partly reflects the choice of British workers to be in a job, rather than on the dole even if the pay isn’t as good as it should be.

What it is certainly not is George Orwell’s ‘Road to Wigan Pier’.

The truth is that the wage data is encouraging. Headline pay growth climbed 1.4pc in the three months to October and with inflation falling to just 1pc, it means that real wages are heading in the right direction. Over the last two months the annualised wage data climbed by 4pc.

That should be better both for households, with more spending power, and for HMRC because it conceivably might push some people into a higher tax bracket.This may all feel a little academic down the Pig & Whistle.

What is very real will be filling up the car to set off on the final round of Christmas shopping with prices at the pump rapidly descending to the £1 mark according to the RAC’s latest forecasts. That is real money in the pocket and immediately.

Zero society, forget it.

http://swintoncircle.org.uk/

So how many of you right wing low life on here are members of this shower of Sh*t then?

Oh no not me Stan, they wouldn't let a Scot be part of that elite! : -)

Congratulations on :




But employment figure are better, sorry just another tory distortion of figures.


Nearly 5 years of incompetence and destruction of the NHS and Welfare services!

The little resident garden gnome seems to have gone very quiet since Chris pointed out that he only had 3 followers on Twitter, perhaps/hopefully he has drowned in a swimming pool of Stella.

More like Babycham. No doubt he'll be back pissed. Thread Trash Alert :o)

foodbanks and food waste
the following anecdote is indicative of why so much food goes to waste for ridiculous reasons

i was in waitrose a few minutes ago to buy some ground coffee
a certain "new arrival" batch had clearly been mislabelled with a sell by date of end november 2014 - assuredly it should have been 2015 per the same brand but different country of origin sitting next door on the shelf

i handed the packets to a member of staff who told me that they were obligated (not just obliged) to throw this coffee away and could not even give it away or even donate it to the local foodbank
when asked why, i was told it was through the company's fear of being sued

assuredly the same must happen with countless tons of perfectly good and edible vegetables and even dairy produce of all kinds .... and don't forget things like tea, rice, oil etc etc

no comment on my post fred, or can you not determine how to make relevant political capital from it?
yes, we all know you can go off on a tangent to do so, and no doubt you now will

People shouldnt be in a position in a wealthy country like this where they have to live off of handouts from others.

As that never ever passed your mind, or is it a case of one rule for me another rule for the poor plebs.

For Cynic.

Daftness.

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I often bought it when it was at its sell by date as it was "ripe" and reduced in price.

I can't afford the unripe ones.

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Coffee.

As a connoisseur Manuel, if you like "mellow" coffee try Gold Label from Liddle.

I drink more coffee than alcohol about 2 pints a day until my heart rate goes up and then I reduce.

I think the blend has been "changed" slightly.

The other thing is the grind in the freezer, keeps well and often when travelling stored a kilo or more. My wife makes Turkish coffee periodically keeps the "right" blend frozen, rather than sitting on a stool and grinding fresh as she was taught and I was misled to expect.

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But I thought the Supermarkets were addressing the sell by date problem. Doing so is not simple.

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Had a friend who wrote to a letter to her husband which said "you have come to your sell by date, I am off to Paris with Peter".

Lucky bugger!

You can choose which was lucky.

fred - i never drink instant coffee; if not proper coffee, then will drink tea


sticky - that wasn't the point of my post ..... the corollary of my post would also be that if there was not so much (needless) waste, then the supermarket prices might be quite a bit lower ...... in your dreams; their margins would just be higher!!

there will always be people who need benefits of all kinds, whether health or housing or food, though the current level of that problem in uk is certainly much greater than it should be
it is not a political football, though i know you would like it to be, but the result of a great number of facts and events, some of which are "collateral damage" - very sad but true - and a few of which just might have been avoided had assorted actions been taken or not much longer than just 3/5 years ago
as always, hindsight is invaluable and infallible

GF,

It is difficult for some to relate back and empathise with their origins because it appears threatening to them, but also there is a problem for some that they seem stuck in the past restrictions of their past.

But, the "institutions" have been and are responsible the elitism, development of self protective behaviour and lack of empathy with the "lower" echelons of society.


I shall now drink my coffee.

Manuel,

Twit.

The coffee I referred to is ground.

Going back 40 years we used to toast our beans to the dictated amount and grind it ourselves.

Don't think I have drank instant coffee in 50 years.

Think it spoils water. Personal taste.

sorry; sounded like a nestle knock-off ...... one doesn't have the likes of lidl around here ..... perhaps they do in slough or high wycombe ..... sainsbury's is our local paupies super :-)